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Vol. 72, No. 68 

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Roadless Area Conservation; National 

Forest System Lands in Idaho 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, is initiating 

a public rulemaking process to address 

the management of roadless areas on 

National Forest System (NFS) lands 

within the State of Idaho. This 

rulemaking is the result of a petition 

submitted by Governor James Risch on 

behalf of the State of Idaho pursuant to 

7 CFR § 1.28, reviewed and 

recommended by the Department’s 

Roadless Area Conservation National 

Advisory Committee, and accepted by 

the Secretary. The State requests 

specific regulatory protections with 

certain management flexibility for the 

9.3 million acres of affected NFS lands. 

The Forest Service will prepare an 

environmental impact statement to 

analyze and disclose potential 

environmental consequences associated 

with this rulemaking. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by May 

10, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent via 

e-mail to IDcomments@fsroadless.org. 

Written comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to Roadless 

Area Conservation-Idaho, P.O. Box 

162909, Sacramento, CA 95816–2909, or 

via facsimile to 916–456–6724. 

All comments, including names and 

addresses, when provided, are placed in 

the record and are available for public 

inspection and copying. The public may 

inspect comments received at http:// 

roadless.fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad 

Gilbert, Idaho Roadless Interdisciplinary 

Team Leader, 208–765–7438, 

bjgilbert@fs.fed.us. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

As a leader in natural resource 

conservation, the Forest Service 

provides direction for the management 

and use of the Nation’s forests, 

rangeland, and aquatic ecosystems. The 

Forest Service is charged to collaborate 

cooperatively with states and other 

interested parties regarding the use and 

management of the National Forest 

System (NFS). 

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation 

Rule (Roadless Rule) 

On January 12, 2001, the Department 

promulgated the Roadless Rule at 36 

CFR 294 (66 FR 3244), which 

fundamentally changed the Forest 

Service’s longstanding approach to 

management of inventoried roadless 

areas by establishing nationwide 

prohibitions that, with some exceptions, 

generally limited timber harvest, road 

construction, and road reconstruction 

within inventoried roadless areas on 

NFS lands. Prior to 2001, inventories of 

roadless areas were used primarily as 

tools for evaluating wilderness 

potential. Unless otherwise provided for 

by law, during forest planning the 

Forest Service generally evaluated each 

area’s wilderness potential, made 

preliminary legislative 

recommendations, and assigned 

appropriate management area direction 

in land management plans. Land 

management plans were developed for 

each unit of the NFS through a public 

notice and comment process, building 

on years of scientific findings, analyses, 

and extensive public involvement. 

Following promulgation of the 

Roadless Rule, concerns were 

immediately expressed by states, Tribes 

and local communities. These concerns 

included the sufficiency and the 

accuracy of the information available for 

public review during the rulemaking 

process; the inclusion of an estimated 

2.8 million acres of roaded lands in the 

inventoried roadless area land base; the 

denial of requests to lengthen the public 

review period; the denial of cooperating 

agency status requested by several 

Western States; the sufficiency of the 

range of alternatives considered in the 

rulemaking process; the need for 

flexibility and exceptions to allow for 

needed resource management activities; 

and the changes made in the final rule 

after the closure of the public comment 

period. Concerns were also expressed 

about applying one set of standards 

uniformly to every inventoried roadless 

area. 

The Roadless Rule became the subject 

of 10 lawsuits in Federal District Courts 

in Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, Wyoming, 

Alaska, and the District of Columbia. In 

one of these lawsuits, the U.S. District 

Court for the District of Idaho issued a 

preliminary injunction prohibiting 

implementation of the Roadless Rule on 

May 10, 2001. The preliminary 

injunction was reversed by the U.S. 

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 

on December 12, 2002. 

Secretary Veneman expressed the 

Department’s commitment to conserving 

inventoried roadless area values in the 

NFS while acknowledging concerns 

raised by local communities, Tribes, and 

states regarding the Roadless Rule. In 

May 2001, the Secretary indicated that 

the Department would move forward 

with a responsible and balanced 

approach to re-examining the Roadless 

Rule. The Department was able to reach 

a settlement agreement with the State of 

Alaska leading to the adoption of a final 

rule on December 30, 2003, that 

withdrew the Tongass National Forest 

from the prohibitions of the Roadless 

Rule. 

However, on July 14, 2003, the U.S. 

District Court for the District of 

Wyoming set aside the Roadless Rule 

and issued a nationwide, permanent 

injunction against its implementation. 

The ruling was appealed. 

The State Petitions Rule 

On May 13, 2005, the Department 

adopted a new rule (70 FR 25654), the 

State Petitions Rule, that established a 

process allowing Governors an 

opportunity to seek establishment of or 

adjustment to management 

requirements for NFS inventoried 

roadless areas within their states. The 

opportunity for submitting state 

petitions was available for 18 months. 

Under the State Petitions Rule, 

submission of a petition was strictly 

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inventoried roadless areas was to be 

guided by individual land management 

plans until and unless these 

management requirements were 

changed through a state-specific 

rulemaking. At the same time, the 

Department established the Roadless 

Area Conservation National Advisory 

Committee in accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. App. II) to assist the Secretary 

with the implementation of this rule. 

On July 12, 2005, the Tenth Circuit 

Court of Appeals held that the appeal 

was moot after promulgation of the State 

Petitions Rule (see below). The Tenth 

Circuit dismissed the appeal and 

vacated the district court decision in 

May 2005, the States of California, New 

Mexico, Washington, and Oregon, as 

well as a coalition of environmental 

groups, challenged the State Petitions 

Rule in the Northern District of 

California. On September 20, 2006, the 

District Court set aside the State 

Petitions Rule and reinstated the 

Roadless Rule. The California court’s 

order triggered the State of Wyoming to 

seek reinstatement by the Wyoming 

District Court of the vacated 2003 

injunction against the original Roadless 

Rule. The State of Wyoming also filed 

a new complaint, again challenging the 

Roadless Rule. 

State of Idaho Petition 

On June 23, 2005, the State of Idaho 

announced it would submit a petition 

pursuant to the State Petitions Rule, 

requesting specific regulatory 

protections and certain management 

flexibility for the 9.3 million acres of 

NFS inventoried roadless areas in Idaho. 

As part of that announcement, the State 

invited affected county commissioners 

to develop specific recommendations 

for the NFS inventoried roadless areas 

in their respective counties. 

Additionally, over 50 public meetings 

were held and the general public was 

encouraged to send individual 

comments directly to the Governor’s 

office for consideration. 

Idaho’s petition was submitted to the 

Secretary of Agriculture for 

consideration on September 20, 2006. 

When the State Petitions Rule was 

injoined, Idaho submitted a petition on 

October 5, 2006, under section 553(e) of 

the Administrative Procedure Act and 

Department regulations at 7 CFR 1.28 

which allow an interested person the 

opportunity to petition for the issuance, 

amendment, or repeal of a rule. 

The Roadless Area Conservation 

National Advisory Committee reviewed 

the Idaho petition on November 29 and 

30, 2006, in Washington, DC. Governor 

James Risch, on behalf of the State of 

Idaho discussed his views on the scope 

and intent of the petition during the first 

day of the meeting. The Committee also 

heard comments from other State and 

Forest Service officials, and members of 

the public. On December 19, 2006, the 

Committee issued a unanimous 

consensus-based recommendation that 

the Secretary direct the Forest Service, 

with the State of Idaho as a cooperating 

agency, to proceed with rulemaking. 

On December 22, 2006, the Secretary 

accepted the petition based on the 

Advisory Committee’s review and report 

and directed the Forest Service to 

initiate rulemaking. 

Estimated Dates 

The Draft environmental impact 

statement is expected September, 2007 

and the final environmental impact 

statement is expected August, 2008. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

Following promulgation of the 

Roadless Rule, the State of Idaho was 

one of several states to express concerns 

about applying one set of standards 

regulating road construction, 

reconstruction, and timber harvest 

uniformly to every inventoried roadless 

area. The State undertook an extensive 

public comment process to assess the 

desired management objectives for each 

individual inventoried roadless area. 

This information was then used to 

construct the petition, including where 

and under what circumstances road 

construction and timber harvest should 

be prohibited in inventoried roadless 

areas. The State examined a 

management continuum that includes at 

one end, a restrictive approach 

emphasizing passive management and 

natural restoration approaches, and on 

the other end, a fairly unrestrictive 

approach emphasizing flexibility and 

active management. The petition, as 

presented by Governor Risch, requests 

that road construction and timber 

harvest be administered in accordance 

with five management themes applied 

to NFS inventoried roadless areas 

within the State of Idaho. While 

developing the petition, the State 

developed a set of guiding principles to 

evaluate the strength of submitted 

comments including: Current land 

management plan prescriptions, 

County/Tribal/Public comments, the 

wildland urban interface and forest 

health, consistency between National 

Forests within the State, and 

consistency between interstate National 

Forests. 

Although the State is seeking a rule 

with accompanying management 

themes that only directly administers 

timber harvest and road construction 

and/or reconstruction within NFS lands 

in Idaho, the State indicates that each 

theme would be an important 

consideration for the Forest Service’s 

future management of inventoried 

roadless areas for activities and uses 

outside of the proposed regulations. The 

State has identified that the description 

of the themes is not intended to 

mandate or direct the Forest Service to 

propose or implement a proposed 

action; rather, the description of each 

theme is envisioned to function as a 

backdrop for future discussions between 

the Forest Service and the Governor’s 

Roadless Rule Implementation 

Commission that was established by 

Idaho Executive Order 2006–43. The 

State also anticipates that the 

rulemaking will direct the Forest 

Service to develop a Memorandum of 

Understanding with the Implementation 

Commission outlining their relationship 

and responsibilities. 

Petitioned Action 

The Forest Service, in cooperation 

with the State of Idaho is initiating a 

public rulemaking process to address 

the management of roadless areas on 

National Forest System (NFS) lands 

within the State of Idaho. The regulation 

sought would administer road 

construction and timber harvest in 

inventoried roadless areas in accordance 

with five management themes and allow 

most appropriate uses in inventoried 

roadless areas to be decided through the 

forest planning process in accordance 

with the National Forest Management 

Act. The management themes are Wild 

Land Recreation (1.3 million acres), 

Primitive Areas (1.7 million acres), 

Backcountry/Restoration (5.5 million 

acres) General Forest Areas (0.5 million 

acres) and Areas of Cultural, Historical, 

and Tribal Significance (0.25 million 

acres). 

In Wild Land Recreation Areas, road 

construction and reconstruction would 

be prohibited. Timber harvest would be 

permitted in these areas only if the 

responsible official determines it is for 

personal or administrative use as 

defined at 36 CFR § 223; the areas show 

little evidence of historical or human 

use; natural processes are predominant; 

and people visiting these areas can find 

outstanding opportunities for recreation, 

including exploration, solitude, risk, 

and challenge. 

In Primitive Areas, road construction 

and reconstruction would be prohibited. 

Timber harvest would be permitted only 

if existing roads or aerial systems are 

used and the responsible official 

determines the harvest falls within 

exceptions consistent with those 

outlined in the Roadless Rule. These 


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areas generally reflect the primitive 

character of the Wild Land Recreation 

theme, however, they fall short of the 

Forest Service’s recommended 

wilderness suitability criteria. They are 

naturally appearing and are relatively 

undisturbed by human management 

activities. 

In Backcountry/Restoration Areas, 

roads may be constructed or 

reconstructed only if the responsible 

official determines the roads fall within 

exceptions consistent with those 

outlined in the Roadless Rule. Timber 

harvest will be permitted if the 

responsible official determines that it 

meets exceptions consistent with those 

outlined in the Roadless Rule. These 

areas may display increased evidence of 

management activities, however, they 

would generally retain their roadless 

character. Areas are to provide a variety 

of recreation opportunites, while also 

ensuring adequate flexibility to 

maintain forest health. 

In General Forest, Grassland and 

Rangeland Areas, road construction and 

timber harvest would be permitted after 

necessary environmental analysis is 

completed. Areas may display high 

levels of human use including roads, 

facilities, evidence of vegetative 

manipulation, and mineral exploration/ 

extraction. 

Three areas of cultural, historic, and 

tribal significance (Pilot Knob, MallardLarkins Pioneer Area, and Lewis and 

Clark Trail) will be defined and 

managed similarly to areas designated 

under the Primative theme. 

The petition does not seek to address 

leasable and locatable minerals. The 

public sale of salable minerals would be 

prohibited in areas designated as Wild 

Land Recreation or Primitive. 

The petition does not seek to address 

recreation, grazing, or other multiple 

uses not expressly prohibited in Idaho 

inventoried roadless areas. Those 

management activities will be governed 

by existing land management planning, 

travel planning, and grazing allotment 

analysis processes. The petition does 

not affect current or future management 

status of existing roads or trails in Idaho 

inventoried roadless areas or the status 

of existing grazing allotments. 

The petition does not address whether 

or how the Roadless Rule or State 

Petitions Rule apply to the inventoried 

roadless acres in national forests and 

grasslands outside of Idaho. 

Possible Alternatives 

The NEPA implementing regulations 

require that an Environmental Impact 

Statement evaluate alternatives. Possible 

alternatives to be considered in the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

include: 

• Promulgation of a rule pursuant to 

the Idaho petition. 

• Roadless management direction as 

set forth in the Roadless Rule. 

• Roadless management direction as 

set forth in current Land and Resource 

Management Plans. 

Additional alternatives may arise 

from public comments or new 

information. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

State governments are important 

partners in management of the Nation’s 

land and natural resources. States, 

particularly in the West, own and 

manage large tracts of land with 

tremendous social and biological value. 

State governments have frequently 

pioneered innovative land management 

programs and policies. State 

governments exert considerable 

influence over statewide economic 

development and private land use, both 

of which significantly affect natural 

resource management. In addition, state 

conservation agencies’ relationships 

with others, including the general 

public offer additional opportunities for 

collaborative decisionmaking. Strong 

state and Federal cooperation regarding 

land management can facilitate longterm, community-oriented solutions. 

As part of its petition, the State of 

Idaho committed to participation as a 

cooperating agency in the preparation of 

any environmental analysis for this 

rulemaking. 

Responsible Official 

The Responsible Official is the 

Secretary, USDA or his designee. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The Forest Service is initiating a 

public rulemaking process to address 

the management of roadless areas on 

National Forest System lands within the 

State of Idaho. This rulemaking is the 

result of a petition submitted by the 

State of Idaho pursuant to 7 CFR 1.28 

and presented by Governor Risch on 

November 29, 2006. The State requests 

specific regulatory protections with 

certain management flexibility for the 

9.3 million acres of affected land. 

Scoping Process 

This Notice of Intent initiates the 

scoping process in compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act and 

its implementing regulations (40 CFR 

part 1500). As part of the scoping 

period, the Forest Service solicits public 

comment on the nature and scope of the 

environmental, social, and economic 

issues related to the rulemaking that 

should be analyzed in depth in the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Comments collected during 

promulgation of the Roadless Rule and 

the extensive public involvement 

process used by the State to craft their 

petition will be heavily relied upon. The 

nature and scope of the analysis for the 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

will focus on the land management 

direction sought in the petition, and the 

alternative to it. Because of the 

extensive amount of public comment 

that has already been received on the 

issue of protecting roadless areas in 

Idaho (see background above) no public 

meetings are planned for this scoping 

effort. However, public meetings will be 

held after the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement and proposed rule 

have been issued, and the public has 

had a chance to take a careful look at the 

site-specific proposed rule, alternatives, 

and effects. 

Supplemental Addresses 

Additional information on how the 

State of Idaho petition was developed 

can be found in the State’s petition at 

http://gov.idaho.gov/ 

roadless_petition.html. 

Detailed maps of the management 

themes, Idaho’s petition, a summary of 

the November 29 and 30, 2006 Advisory 

Committee meeting, the 

recommendation made by the Roadless 

Area Conservation National Advisory 

Committee to the Secretary, and the 

Secretary’s letter to the Governor can be 

found at the Forest Service Roadless 

Area Conservation Web site: http:// 

roadless.fs.fed.us. 

Comment Requested 

Reviewers should provide their 

comments during the comment period. 

Timely comments will enable the 

agency to analyze and respond to them 

at one time and to use them in the 

preparation of the Environmental 

Impact Statement, thus avoiding undue 

delay in the decisionmaking process. 

Furthermore, the more specific and 

substantive the comments, the better for 

reviewers and the agency alike. 

Reviewers have an obligation to 

‘‘structure their participation in the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

process so that it is meaningful and 

alerts the agency to the reviewer’s 

position and contentions.’’ Vermont 

Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC, 

435 U.S. 519, 552 (1978). Dept. of 

Transportation v. Public Citizen, 541 

U.S. 752, 764 (2004). Environmental 

concerns that could have been raised at 

the draft stage may therefore be forfeited 

if not raised until after completion of 

the Final Environmental Impact 


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Statement. Comments on the draft 

should be specific and should address 

the adequacy of the draft and the merits 

of the alternatives discussed (40 CFR 

1503.3). 

Dated: March 30, 2007. 

Frederick Norbury, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

[FR Doc. E7–6756 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

National Tree-marking Paint 

Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Tree-marking 

Paint Committee will meet in Portland, 

Oregon on May 15–17, 2007. The 

purpose of the meeting is to discuss 

activities related to improvements in, 

concerns about, and the handling and 

use of tree-marking paint by personnel 

of the Forest Service and the 

Department of the Interior’s Bureau of 

Land Management. 

DATES: The meeting will be May 15–17, 

2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be at the 

Portland Marriott Downtown 

Waterfront, 1401 SW Naito Parkway, 

Portland, OR 97201. Persons who wish 

to file written comments before or after 

the meeting must send written 

comments to Dave Haston, Chairperson, 

National Tree-marking Paint Committee, 

Forest Service, USDA, San Dimas 

Technology and Development Center, 

444 East Bonita Avenue, San Dimas, 

California 91773, or electronically to 

dhaston@fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dave Haston, Sr. Project Leader, San 

Dimas Technology and Development 

Center, Forest Service, USDA, 909–599–

1267, extension 294 or 

dhaston@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Tree-marking Paint Committee 

is comprised of representatives from the 

Forest Service national headquarters, 

each of the nine Forest Service Regions, 

the Forest Products Laboratory, the 

Forest Service San Dimas Technology 

and Development Center, and the 

Bureau of Land Management. The 

General Services Administration and 

the National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health are ad hoc members 

and provide technical advice to the 

committee. 

A field trip on May 15 is designed to 

supplement information related to treemarking paint. This trip is open to any 

member of the public participating in 

the meeting on May 16–17. However, 

transportation is provided only for 

committee members. 

The main session of the meeting, May 

16–17, is open to public attendance. 

Closed Sessions 

While certain segments of this 

meeting are open to the public, there 

will be two closed sessions during the 

meeting. The first closed session is on 

May 16 from approximately 10 a.m. to 

12 p.m. This session is reserved for 

individual paint manufacturers to 

present products and information about 

tree-marking paint for consideration in 

future testing and use by the agency. 

Paint manufacturers also may provide 

comments on tree-marking paint 

specifications or other requirements. 

This portion of the meeting is open only 

to paint manufacturers, the Committee, 

and committee staff to ensure that trade 

secrets will not be disclosed to other 

paint manufacturers or to the public. 

Paint manufacturers wishing to make 

presentations to the Tree-marking Paint 

Committee during the closed session 

should contact the committee 

chairperson at the telephone number 

listed at FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in this notice. The second 

closed session is on May 17 from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. This 

session is for Steering Committee 

members only. 

Any person with special access needs 

should contact the Chairperson to 

arrange for accommodations. Space for 

individuals who are not members of the 

National Tree-marking Paint Committee 

is limited and will be available to the 

public on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Dated: April 3, 2007. 

Frederick Norbury, 

Associate Deputy Chief—NFS. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Marysville Irrigation Company Gravity 

Pressurized Irrigation Delivery System; 

Fremont County, ID 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of a Finding of No 

Significant Impact. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969; the Council on 

Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 

CFR Part 1500); and the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service 

Guidelines (7 CFR Part 650); the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, gives notice 

that an environmental impact statement 

is not being prepared for the Marysville 

Irrigation Company, Gravity 

Pressurized, Irrigation Delivery System, 

Fremont County, Idaho. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Sims, State Conservationist, 

Natural Resources Conservation Service, 

9173 W. Barnes Dr., Suite C, Boise, 

Idaho 83709–1574, telephone (208) 378–

5700. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Plan/ 

Environmental Assessment of this 

federally assisted action indicates that 

the project will not cause significant 

local, regional, or national adverse 

impacts affecting the quality of the 

human environment. As a result of these 

findings, Richard Sims, State 

Conservationist, has determined that the 

preparation and review of an 

environmental impact statement are not 

needed for this project. 

The Proposed Action consists of 

replacing an open ditch irrigation 

delivery system with buried plastic 

pipelines to distribute gravity 

pressurized irrigation water. The 

Proposed Action includes the 

construction and operation and 

maintenance of three plastic pipelines 

that provide for the delivery of gravity 

pressurized irrigation water to 

approximately 6,130 acres surrounding 

Marysville, Idaho, eliminating most of 

the need for pumping by electric 

motors. Approximately 1,000 acres 

would require booster pumps. Water 

would only be drawn from the pipe 

when irrigation is required, eliminating 

overflow to the Henry’s Fork River. The 

Proposed Action would eliminate about 

90% of the water seepage loss from the 

canals and the need for approximately 

1,600 horsepower from electric pump 

motors while not adversely affecting the 

environment. 

The Notice of Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) has been 

forwarded to the Environmental 

Protection Agency. The basic data 

developed during the plan/ 

environmental assessment is on file and 

may be reviewed by contacting Mr. 

Richard Sims. The FONSI has been sent 

to various Federal, State, and local 

agencies, and interested parties. A 

limited number of copies of the FONSI 


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